When you do a thing because you have determined that it ought to be done, never avoid being seen doing it, even if the opinion of the multitude is going to condemn you. For if your action is wrong, then avoid doing it altogether, but if it is right, why do you fear those who will rebuke you wrongly?

so. So when any one makes you angry, know that it is your own thought that has angered you.

On no occasion call yourself a philosopher, nor talk at large of your principles among the multitude, but act on your principles. For

are: he blames none, praises none, complains of none, accuses none, never speaks of himself as if he were somebody,

Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen as they do, and you shall have

Exercise yourself then in what lies in your power. Each man's master is the man who has authority over what he wishes or does not wish, to secure the one or to take away the other. Let him then who wishes to be free not wish for anything or avoid anything that depends on others; or else he is bound to be a slave.

their judgments on events. For instance, death is nothing dreadful, or else Socrates would have thought it so. No, the only dreadful thing about it is men's judgment that it is dreadful. And so when we are hindered, or disturbed, or distressed, let us never lay the blame on others, but on ourselves, that is, on our own judgments. To accuse others f

or as if he knew anything.

instance, at a banquet do not say how one ought to eat, but eat as you ought.